College English, Vol. 71, No. 4, March 2009

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• Keeping Curious Company: Wayne C. Booth’s Friendship Model of Criticism and the Work of Hunter S. Thompson

  Stephanie Stiles and Randy Harris

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  Abstract: Wayne Booth’s model of reader response as “friendship” would seem to be severely tested by the writings of Hunter Thompson, because this author often portrayed himself as someone who was anything but ingratiating. Yet we can indeed apply Booth’s theory to Thompson’s texts, especially if we distinguish their protagonist from what Booth referred to as “the implied author.”

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• Conversation at a Crucial Moment: Hybrid Courses and the Future of Writing Programs

  Catherine Gouge

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  Abstract: Because hybrid first-year college writing programs are an emerging phenomenon, it is important for composition specialists to identify their potential strengths and possible disadvantages. The author reviews the various forms that such programs have taken so far, and she engages in an extended critique of one particular institution’s model, questioning especially its claims to objectivity.

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• How to Teach for Social Justice: Lessons from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Cognitive Science

  Mark Bracher

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  Abstract: The author explains how principles of cognitive science can help teachers of literature use texts as a means of increasing students’ commitment to social justice. Applying these principles to a particular work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, he calls particular attention to the relationship between cognitive science and literary schemes for building reader empathy.

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• Texts of Our Institutional Lives: “What's in a Name?”: Institutional Critique, Writing Program Archives, and the Problem of Administrator Identity

  Steve Lamos

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  Abstract: When scholars write about their research into writing programs’ archives, they often face the ethical question of whether to name the administrators who were involved in documents. The author identifies and provides examples of three basic orientations to this issue, which he calls overt-historical, covert-qualitative, and hybrid-institutional. Referring to his own research experience, he ultimately endorses the third approach.

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• Announcements and Calls for Papers

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